Waiting
by Janet Hanna For what exactly am I waiting? The grocery line to hurry The tiny age lines around my mouth to harden The friend who doesn’t return a call An enemy to soften The finality of Armageddon...
View ArticleLindsay Lohan Stiffs Justice in 84 Minutes
Lindsay Lohan was supposed to do jail time for a car chase — but ended up only serving 84 minutes of her four-day sentence: Lindsay Lohan entered a Southern California jail on November 15 – and walked...
View ArticleAs Justice Must Be Done
Is there such a thing as “Justice” in the world? Or is justice just the excuse we use to impel our will on the world? If we believe in justice, then we must also believe in the proof of its...
View ArticleStick a Pin in Sarkozy: He is Done
What we bind together and choose to fight defines our cultural values and our inherent morality and immoral choices. When a French court ruled that voodoo dolls of French President Nicolas Sarkozy...
View ArticleSurveilling the New Information Minority
Jamie Grace wrote this article. I’d like to put forward the idea that by using surveillance and monitoring in our society as we progress through the Information Age we are creating new ‘information...
View ArticleLindsay Lohan Tells Us to F-Off!
When Lindsay Lohan appeared in open court this week with “F*ck U” written on the middle fingernail facing the judge sentencing her, we all heaved a sign of remorse that the young woman will never...
View ArticlePerverts at the Screen Door
NBC news, in association with Perverted Justice, have now taped and aired three televisions programs — and all subsequently re-aired on MSNBC — where pedophiles are entrapped in online chat rooms and...
View ArticleLoving Judge Judy
I am in love with Judge Judy. She is smart, tough, funny, compassionate, and she can read a phony from a mile away and tells them she knows they’re a fake right to their face. Judge Judy has many...
View ArticleThe Architecture of Belonging: Resurrecting Habeas Corpus
In a historic — and Bush-shattering 5-4 vote — the Supreme Court of the United States of America invoked its inherent authority to decide the law of the land. With prisoners being held indefinitely at...
View ArticleLeveling the Pendulum: Still No Country for Old Men
My first reaction to the movie — “No Country for Old Men” — was one of revulsion and remorse: I initially felt there was too much senseless bloodlust for my taste. Then I watched the movie again and...
View ArticleTwo Shoes for Eight Years
Yesterday in Iraq, Dubya got what he deserved as a furious local journalist tossed two shoes his way as the rest of the world gasped and guffawed. Shoe One came with this note: This is a gift from the...
View ArticleThe Sex Offender Registry: The Future Always Disappoints History
All our futures are carved by a history we did not live, and cannot share. There are some among us who are never able to recover from the trauma of childhood. Murder, death, illness, and sexual...
View ArticleMerrick Garland Will Not Save Us
When Joe Biden picked Merrick Garland — Obama’s previous transitory, Republican-appeasing, milquetoast nominee for the Supreme Court — as his Attorney General, the virtue signalling rang a false note...
View ArticleThe Inescapable Return of Donald Trump
Donald Trump is a disgrace to America and a verified liar in the specific; and yet, I cannot get over this obligation of wonder that he has never left the consciousness of America. He is resurrected....
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